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that. on the call. so based on these rules is the name under which our record and play reggae music in india. reggae music is really kind of shipboard life from. a very young age you know. and youou know it it may come fm jamaica a but i feel that. it talks about justice equality it talks about colonialism. reggae music has a message that's that's deeply relevant in today's world and especially for the i think. when does this kind of all out right wing assault on our freedom? to ask questions and generally all freedom of expression and people you know are being targeted like students teachers activists filmmakers
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[inaudible] right. to i've been so good to know so the committed this form of arrested. and people out on the streets. the protest is reached our doorstep. so in whichever way you know i'd like i'd like to attempt to contribute something to this [inaudible] leave. if you can't be a part of the struggles of john happening in the country. what what the meaning of culture andd artistic production meaning is to kind of brbring people together to be a voice organ? off off the people .
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if you're playing the people's music. you have to find a way to take it to the people then and if that's always what a gentleman i was frustrated doing what i'i' doing alwayss. i dreamt of that i know what is something youou can do whenen i don't want to dance can do a lo. these are thingngs we should not only happen it's like i need music venue this should. i would in in in my jejeans thii is something whihich i want to e able to contribute to our middle of a gathering of protest space that i think there is a space with thihis could be a value. we first t to address the restrictions. was to go back to the hard already knows it which is something called.
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and softnessss and i'm not justa stack of speakers. some systems traditionallyly hae been a way to take thihings in your own hanands and find ways takeke music strghght peoplple. i mean literally i mean one thing with the sound system ever since i started playing reggae music is most of my life. some systems i expensive and you can buy the ready made you have to build it yourself. so with a mix of crowd funding and our own money me and my partnerr some other sort of building all one system. anand experience to build its on system you're lucky to find solace. sound engineer to help us build always. we'll see what it's like. and if you can. name that wowould sort of t that this is the this is the real deal. and i'm getting a big run on so we can to get across. it's having some way to play it thatat's the biggegest. that's the b biggest thing is finding some way to actually
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turn it on is this. land with a this would be the easiest way to say this is sam. and then the other. one what channel brings a why do you fefeel the need to stay home with the fly is important to understand that. because if the string out wrong things will go back [inaudible] my day. course menu can can somebody it doesnsn't help. so reload students only. someing that start as an idea. suddenly becomes a realility and
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the down physical system that you're on n top of imagine thisa green seven different places. setting it up people coming ago it's this no. i meant chananges from number fr if any -- ever this i is sports and writes and singers whwho are the four d there. was thehe movie simply select te most t teatened bececause theirr words have found when the suprememe liquids and i'm not en sure i wanted to be a success because if it is then backing me more troubles. as a mother as williams read consumer.
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alright t but isn'n't all. apapologies to everyone trying o sleep. i mean is that right. this is the final ten more minutes all music. it goes like this. i don't remember who shot over from i india offer talk. araround the world. the main channel that lies before us is. where are we going to ban all people going to react? you know how are people going to react if i take the system to a protesest space or to a street corner. and now people goingng. to let loose and dance with us and and get it or people going to be like yo. you know. be dismissive and black who's this privileged.
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we continue to test it and i know how to operate the system. and we played a gig to launcht. i'm not too longg after i i'm gogoing to cal from my old university andnd screams were asasking us to comome. and bring thehe system then to support theirir comrades were on hunger sikike [inaudible] o o this iss thehe a and so it doeot
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look like this. you get it in order. i thought that it. no you nervous man i mean the golf is nervous because you want to be relevant and you want to be a able to commununicate and create meaningng and a all. set to o indoor youou never knou know like what sometimimes thehe wonder l like. can you do thatat things are making music and i kind of been doing this whole life i loveve t but you stitill have a hahave a don't you knknow. for this reas. the kingng on the revenues and f there's no music in the convention if the condensed wit. and what this is supposed to be also fun with. so then it't's important for the kind of things -- these kind of medium he's been about business kind of music do you have any of the reporting party and they do a lot in the living.
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in the in the beginning when ii started plalaying. that actualllly off everyone t o sit down. which i didn't want to put like so. i'm playing records. and i haveve a scene of peoplple ke sittingng on the ground looking g at me expectantly. which m made me e very uncomfofe nine hours it wasn't working in quite the way that i want because the whole idea is that people don'n't look at me look at each other and join us at r right. you don't have to watch them on here. i want you guys. to each other. you know what i mean. jump at least [inaudible] one
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the music is all butut on the je was confidence that our do good work. and after that we were ininvited to p played other p proteins and other r venues i. reading the itching to take the system. and then finally what a johnston students from fda which is india's leading finance us to turn on the campus important. we are is all to see major protests against the government. and we'll we'll bring. on the struggle. and hopefully ought to be able to contribute some energy to their arm ran for mayor.
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supposed to do a show at fifty eight and welel the director of the institute from what i gather the first time i met them what's a what's a people's organization the vevery much kind of pushing for change. shin is exactly the kind of people that i want to work with. ththey've never r reallyy heard reggae music before that never really experienced based on sound system before. so you you don't know all this thing is going to go. can. hello hello. hi how are y you. yeah [inaudible] i don't. is the biggest music actctually may be of assistance in order. get it to want to want me. he still waterer maybe so but to
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make a living the walkways and i think leah i saw a musical play unitech musical dia. you basically double does go [inaudible] yeah. we use m mail app. how can music amici leak on the hotel uniform a medical? company with that at all yeah they give musical people being missional tomatoes is it going to go on the block. no he doesn't need to make a music it was saying. at two hundred two today could you hear them between the americans are not --
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communicate the music's message the audience. and with that in mind i i suggested to look at that you also get these rap was down because what they see. the the rap in hindi and marath. they have revolutionary songs and we felt that this would help the audience to connect to the show. it. mark. to mark this audition bubt if such you bought. well man t this is rough. the work thth -- manta of tough talk toto women.. i thinink it's empowerering the. it's important for the m. c. and it's importing falling foror the people here it because look i mean a aot of the times. culture that's imported from abroad. is english culture in there sometimes is s associated with t needs you know but this is not what this music is this is s get
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the music you know. so i think -- for people to hear things from from hererit's like. it makes it makes everything of everything more meaningful and rough i for you not. job needle and smashed the place apartment people feel asas if it was printed in the in t the bods are moved but so much and i'm saying [inaudible] check. and i'm not. best phone there's not seven and i can. the woman knownwn to do today's show definitelyy i it's kind ofa things can cross over. four how far people will connect to what we're doing and i hope that the singles from local out then? and and and the rappers and stuff when it kind of element
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because maybe about the war. jenny wolf hey to make all of them will deduct their course not at the box office of g good thatat you do once guy said god you policy t that it got there. the whole movie political group. we'll skip that your program will. develop as cities okay politics worldpost ben as of the keys at the w wall what i seventyty six which leads us to t them dot indicatitive. to estimate how mm called me bought bought safely - down below the summit of and i will take on but yeah we have
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using monday. well i mean little but then that's a big. he is the one that isn't a guarantee. yeah i got it from onene of i ce in at no hundreded at a concert here. us some on hand. he moves on search and he wasn'. leading odds all rights i mean i'm going out. i'm c. vzv about getting it. voting is a all the drives in june if lion thought this thing and one call right not in the office on the major lazer told with regard to on the all risk. that the love boat respect to all the worry us with that and not the forest no it again i
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[inaudible] thank you. no no no . to see everybody energized in this way and dancing in this way with so much freedom. gives me a lot of joy it also gives me a lot of that. for me this is just the beginning that that shows the potential now our task is to find ways. to build on this find ways to make it more poignant [inaudible] more important. the journey ahead. for that much is clear .
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